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XVI. On the Mineralogy and local Scenery 

 of certain Districts in the Highlands of 

 Scotland. 



By Dr Macknight. 

 PART I. 



BEN-LEDI, AND ITS ENVIRONS* 



(Read i$th January 1810.^ 



The desire of obtaining some practical informa- 

 tion with regard to a branch of science, which has 

 lately excited much interest in this country, hav- 

 ing induced me to undertake the task of examin- 

 ing, in a mineralogical point of view, a few of the 

 most remarkable mountains in the Highlands of 

 Scotland, I am now to lay before the Society the 

 result of my observations. 



In doing this, I can hardly flatter myself, that 

 what is to be offered, will add much to the stock 

 of knowledge in geognosy, which has already 

 been acquired. It will only form a small contri- 



